Samsung/YouTube
- Samsung is no stranger to experimenting with new form factors for smartphones, as it proved again this week with the Galaxy Fold.
- The gadget maker has released many unconventional phones over the years, from flip phones with swivel hinges to phones with curved screens.
After much anticipation, Samsung finally unveiled its first foldable smartphone on February 20, the appropriately-named Galaxy Fold.
Starting at a whopping $1,980, the Galaxy Fold is a 4.6-inch phone that “unfolds” to become a 7.3-inch tablet. Samsung is pitching the Galaxy Fold as a luxury one-of-a-kind device for those in need of a gadget with more screen space than your average smartphone. During its keynote, the company boasted about how the Galaxy Fold can run three apps simultaneously on screen, for example.
Samsung has a long history of releasing unconventional cell phones that experiment with new form factors. Here’s a look at some of the most distinguished phones the South Korean electronics giant has made over the years.
The Samsung Juke (2007)
Samsung
With the Juke, Samsung attempted to combine a cell phone with an MP3 player, resulting in a super skinny phone that served as a music player when shut and a cell phone when opened. When closed, the phone’s keypad sits tucked away under the screen, which swivels out like a switchblade — undoubtedly the phone’s most memorable characteristic. It also had a spinning metal scroll wheel for navigating the phone’s tiny screen when in music-player mode.
The Samsung Galaxy Round (2013)
Samsung
Curved screens have become a staple of Samsung’s latest flagship phones, and it all started in 2013 with the Galaxy Round. The device’s screen had a concave curve that was meant to make the phone more comfortable to hold up to your ear and in your hand. Samsung launched the phone in Korea in October 2013.
The Samsung Galaxy Golden
Expansys APAC
Even in the era of the smartphone, Samsung hasn’t given up on flip phones. The Samsung Galaxy Golden, which the company launched in 2013 according to tech website Gadgets 360, appears to be a smartphone squeezed into a flip-phone form factor. It had two 3.7-inch touch screens: one on the front of the phone’s clamshell cover and one on the inside.
See the rest of the story at Business Insider
See Also:
- Samsung wants the Galaxy Fold to be its next game changer — just like the Galaxy Note was 7 years ago
- Here’s how Samsung’s new $750 Galaxy phone compares to the iPhone XR
- Samsung just introduced a wildly ambitious, $2,000 foldable phone — here’s how it works
Source: Business Insider – leadicicco@businessinsider.com (Lisa Eadicicco)